[Lismore Bloke (Paul)]

Originally Posted by ngcles

Hi Paul & All,



I've never seen that one before -- excellent and thanks for alerting us all to it.

I've just used it to identify the small star-like galaxy close to NGC 858 in my most recent observing report on 19092009 in Pt 3. They identify it as NGC 858 (2) (is this NGC 858B??) and PGC 8451, but this PGC designation also applies to NGC 858 itself. Strangely, I couldn't turn up anything in SIMBAD there (have I mentioned before how much I dislike the SIMBAD interface?) nor Megastar, nor Skymap.


Best,

Les D

Hi Les,

I had a look at the NGC858 area in Aladin, with the NED database imported, it indicates 2 galaxies almost superimposed and a smaller one following. It looks like the superimposed galaxies have been given the same number, a bit confusing.